'An Amazon for Jihadis': Shop that sold guns to Paris attackers still open for business

RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE: The quiet building houses a massive gun warehouse

AFG Security-Corporation – which sits in a sleepy suburb of Slovakia – seems unremarkable from the outside.

But it has been the subject of several police probes after weapons were believed to have been bought to kill from the shop.

Despite arming some of the most evil men in Europe with weapons of mass destruction its doors are still open for business – and it's entirely legal.

Shoppers can browse deadly Kalashnikov-style rifles and a range of assault weapons manufactured with the intention to kill on its online shopping site.

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CLICK AND COLLECT: Active guns must be purchased in person

Hans Bruns, a specialist in European terrorism, believes the shop – and others like it – is like "an Amazon for Jihadis".

He told the Daily Star Online: "The course of several the recents attacks would have been very different if they perpetrators had not been armed with assault rifles.

"As you know, European police forces are lightly armed - if they are armed - and are more or less without a chance initially.

"As I see it, and have advocated for some time, it is necessary with some sort of coordinated effort on an EU level to decrease the number of military grade weapons on the market. The deactivated weapons are just one aspect of it."

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BARGAIN: Kalashnikov-style guns can be ordered online

Every terrorist's must-have kit – including assault rifles, balaclavas, bullet proof vests and ammo – can easily be purchased both online and in-store from AFG security.

The most deadly weapons – like an AK-47 – fall into Category A and must be bought over-the-counter.

However a loophole means that deactivated guns - which are modified so they can only shoot blanks – fall into Category D along with handguns and sharp items.

It advertises these "professionally impaired" items in its suggestions for shopping section.

These Category D items can be delivered to Belgium, Ireland, Croatia, Luxembourg, Spain, Hungary, Austria or Germany for between 15 and 20 euro, the website states.

The assailants in the Charlie Hebdo attacks – which killed 11 and wounded 11 more – also bought their weapons from AFG too, the National Crime Agency revealed last week.

And last year a notorious British crime gang managed to sneak in the largest ever haul of automatic weapons from AFG to the UK, it said.

Their haul of 22 Kalashnikov-style rifles and nine machine guns were smuggled from Slovakia to France and across the channel in a motorboat – proving how simple it is for criminals to move deadly guns around Europe and into our country.

Police raided the stash of "mass casualty weapons" when the boat docked in Kent.

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Rob Lewin, head of specialist operations for the NCA, said: "They were very similar weapons to those used in the Charlie Hebdo attacks. It was the same supply route and same methodology of deactivating and reactivating the weapons. It was the same source in the same country."

Daily Star Online contacted AFG Security for comment but they are yet to respond.

When placing an order it was told that items could not be shipped specifically to the UK.

But the owner's son Frantisek Gajdos has previously defended his business, telling the Wall Street Journal that they had not broken any laws and often sold to "foreign" customers.